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Another fun quote: “Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?”. Plenty to grab from that quote, but there are reports the indigenous people got so
depressedexcited to enter the kingdom of heaven they essentially did nothing for as long as they could, simply waiting to die.Also I watched this full video, because I feel like it’s important to get full context of these things. I learned some other stuff:
Columbus, slavery = forgiven!
There’s a good 3-part Behind the Bastards episodes on Columbus. If anyone hasn’t had a listen it’s a great overview of what Columbus really was: a bastard.
Hardcore History (I know, Dan Carlin is looked down upon by proper historians, but I still think he has value as a storyteller and he does cite his sources) and Our Fake History both had multipart episodes on him too.
Spoiler. He ends up committing some light genocide.